In Clojure when you need to work with maps you get the option to choose from a number of builtin core functions such as get, assoc, dissoc, merge, select-keys, zipmap, keys, vals and many others.

For the past couple of months or so I’ve been programming in Clojure and I really enjoy it.

One of the API services that I have developed recently for internal project returns a flat sequence of items, where each item in the sequence may or may not be related to other items with a parent-child relationship.

As mentioned in a previous blog post one of the past projects I’ve been involved in was an internal CMDB system and the development of collection of Cisco UCS Configuration Items (CIs) such as Fabric Interconnects, Chassis and Blade servers.

One of the recent projects that I’m working on is an internal CMDB system.

Recently I had a need to parse some OpenSSH certificate keys, and since it’s been a while since I’ve written anything in Rust I thought I’d dive into the language again and create a library for parsing OpenSSH certificates in it.

When Nintendo first announced the NES Classic Edition I was sure I would get one of these consoles.

Amongst the various improvements and fixes in Gru orchestration framework one of the highlights of version 0.5.0 of the project is the added support for managing VMware vSphere environments.

Latest version of Gru orchestration framework ships with a new feature called triggers.

Traditional configuration management systems perform operations on the target systems they manage after doing topological sorting of the operations that need to be performed.